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Facebook API need to get applications uid with only key not any logged in session

Hi, I am creating a WP facebook sidebar, basicly I have a facebook application API key and Secret Key the problem i am experincing is i need to get the UID of the applications owner using only the API KEY or Even the Secret Key... At this point in the app no user is logged in at all Is this even possible? Thanks Ricky ...

Looking for free web services APIs based on geolocation (latitude and longitude)?

Hello! I am developing a web project, which uses a database with many places worldwide and their geolocations (latitude and longitude). I am looking for any free web services and APIs, working with coordinates and returning any useful and interesting data in possible to parse format. I want to make my project more complete, useful and...

Auto Shutdown and Start Amazon EC2 Instance

Can I automatically start and terminate my Amazon instance using Amazon API? Can you please describe how this can be done? I ideally need to start the instance and stop the instance at specified time intervals every day. ...

C# Find selected control on any window

What would be the best way to go about finding what the active control is on any window? I am going to be sending the WM_PASTE message to it. ChildWindowFromPoint has not been returning a fair few of the selected controls. ...

Simplified opensource calendaring (ICS) solution

This is repost of my question on serverfault.com. As I need a a system with exposed API I can code against, I thing it's more suitable for here. I'm after a very simple (in my eyes) opensource calendaring solution. The basic functionality I need is: provide readonly ICS feed (http/s/) (the way google cal provides it), so clients can ...

Can I "add friend" with FAcebook's API?

Does their API allow my Facebook-connected user to add a friend? ...

How to use Twitter Api To Get more than 20 list Members in a single request?

i want to get more than 20 users using the the twitter api in a single request is there any parameter that specifies it? i am using this api http://api.twitter.com/1/Barelyme/Politics/members.xml?cursor=-1 ...

How do you Screen Scrape?

When there is no webservice API available, your only option might be to Screen Scrape, but how do you do it in c#? how do you think of doing it? ...

win32 api programming book

Which is the best book for win32 api for beginners? Many in other posts suggested Charles Petzold's Programming Windows, but isn't that book old. As far as I remember it was written in Win9X, more then a decade ago on a dos based system. Windows has changed a lot since then. Is that book still good? I've also considered QT, but I believ...

quick check on use of map api (android)

When you use the Google map api, it is not part of the Android SDK, and you have to mention it in your manifest xml file. Do you have to do anything to access the jar file containing the map api code? Or is that automatically present on the device or emulator, the way the SDK code is? Do you need put the map api jar file in your class...

Which HTTP redirect status code is best for this REST API scenario?

I'm working on a REST API. The key objects ("nouns") are "items", and each item has a unique ID. E.g. to get info on the item with ID foo: GET http://api.example.com/v1/item/foo New items can be created, but the client doesn't get to pick the ID. Instead, the client sends some info that represents that item. So to create a new item: P...

Facebook Restful PHP Client - get Events of a User

Hi, im using the Facebook PHP Client library and want to get the Events of a user without first logging in as a user. Is that possible? I got the User ID and the events.get method has a parameter UID. <?php // Configure $apiKey = 'xxx'; $secretKey = 'xxx'; // Include Lib require_once('facebook.php'); // init main object $face...

display facebook request box using facebook API

hi, i need to display my fb request box that contains count of friend request,suggestion etc to my website using API. I'm using PHP.Is there any way to do that? thanks ...

Google Analytics API Authentication Speedup

I'm using a Google Analytics API Class in PHP made by Doug Tan to retrieve Analytics data from a specific profile. Check the url here: http://code.google.com/intl/nl/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataArticlesCode.html When you create a new instance of the class you can add the profile id, your google account + password, a daterange and wh...

Webservice for receiving emails with attachments

Is there any webservice (API) that can receive emails and process their attachements to deliver them into my app? ...

Best Practices For Secure APIs?

Let's say I have a website that has a lot of information on our products. I'd like some of our customers (including us!) to be able to look up our products for various methods, including: 1) Pulling data from AJAX calls that return data in cool, JavaScripty-ways 2) Creating iPhone applications that use that data; 3) Having other we...

How to get my geolocation in bash

I am looking for a good geolocation api to use from bash. I want this call to return at the very minimum the name of the city I am in, and the state. I imagine that there must be some site I can curl, or some scripting language that has a package that works. The machine does not have a GPS, but it does use wireless internet most of the ...

Google API to figure how many times a keyword is searched.

Is there a Google API tool to get how many times a specific term was searched between a certain interval (month/day/year)? From my understanding, what I'm looking for is similar to Google Keywords Tool, but I prefer not to fill in their captcha everytime, and I want to know only the statistics that suit the entered term. Does Google/ot...

How to Edit a Google Doc

There doesn't seem to be (to my knowledge) an API to edit Google Docs (not spreadsheets, their HTML based documents). Has anyone done something like the? Maybe by downloading the HTML version, editing and uploading the changes? ...

Ruby and Ruby on Rails offline API documentation

Hi, In the past I used railsbrain.com to have a nice and handy offline api documentation. But they stop at version 2.3.2 Is there any other solution with latest version. Thanks ...